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Maybe he is lying, maybe not, but I would hardly say this is proof. Most mail programs today default to showing the name of the sender, not their address. Even

Maybe he is lying, maybe not, but I would hardly say this is proof. Most mail programs today default to showing the name of the sender, not their address. Even if he did see the server name, I would imagine he has many more things on his mind. And, let's say he did know she was using an outside server -- that doesn't mean that he would have any reason to suspect that she was sending classified info through it: in fact, only a tiny handful of emails containing classified information have been recovered.

tdb7893 10y ago
She had apparently talked to Colin Powell about how to handle information and it seems like the advice he gave her was to just try to not send or receive any classified data and that's what it looks like she was doing as there weren't any emails that contained classified headers or footers that I know of (which are how you generally would know if something was classified). I doubt Obama knew she had classified information on the server unless he dug through all of her actual emails.
- outand_up 10y ago
  There were 110 emails in 52 email chains that were classified at the time they were sent or received, and at least 3 (that the FBI director remembers) that contained visible classified header markings. This is national security we're talking about, it's really important to be accurate when making statements. In the pursuit of truth and fact, please refer to this video of FBI Director James Comey at a House Oversight Committee meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1Mc6-RDyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1Mc6-RDyQ
- davidf18 10y ago
  I don't think Colin Powell gave her that advice. The reason is that he and others know that all government business, whether classified or not, must be on government servers because by law, there must be a record of all government emails. Again, by law, this information can be disclosed through Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests, something which Clinton wanted to avoid.
  - daughart 10y ago
    A quick google would reveal that he did in fact give this advice: "He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department," a Powell spokeswoman said. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-hillary-clinton-emails-227861#ixzz4OKFJlh00 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-hillary-c...
MaxLeiter 10y ago
75% of people probably don't understand domain names/servers; in his position, I would have assumed it was a secure, govt server. Plus, the past secretary of state did the same, and the Bush administration deleted millions of emails (not just a few thousand)
- davidf18 10y ago
  > 75% of people probably don't understand domain names/servers; in his position, I would have assumed it was a secure, govt server I think we should credit a Harvard Law grad and undergrad Columbia Univ. that has security staff and technical staff briefing him that he would know that government domains end in ".gov" and not ".com" I believe that he would know that the SOS email address domain is "state.gov" Regarding past SOS, ..... Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who was appointed after AG Gonzales was dismissed wrote that criminal charges should be filed [1]. [1] Clinton’s Emails: A Criminal Charge Is Justified Hillary’s explanations look increasingly contrived as evidence of malfeasance mounts day by day. http://www.wsj.com/articles/clintons-emails-a-criminal-charge-is-justified-1453419158 http://www.wsj.com/articles/clintons-emails-a-criminal-charg... EDIT: From the article: "When asked whether she had her server “wiped,” she assumed an air of grandmotherly befuddlement: “What, like with a cloth or something?” she said. “I don’t know how it works digitally at all.” The current news, reported in the Journal and elsewhere, is that her server contained information at the highest level of classification, known as SAP, or Special Access Program. This is a level so high that even the inspector general for the intelligence community who reported the discovery did not initially have clearance to examine it."
  - tdb7893 10y ago
    How often do you read the domains of the people that send you emails? Also how is it surprising that Hillary, who is almost 70, can't use computers. I'm sick of these scandals on both sides with one side assuming Clinton is a Bond villian and the other side perfectly ready the think Trump is literally Hitler
    - davidf18 10y ago

tdb7893 10y ago

She had apparently talked to Colin Powell about how to handle information and it seems like the advice he gave her was to just try to not send or receive any classified data and that's what it looks like she was doing as there weren't any emails that contained classified headers or footers that I know of (which are how you generally would know if something was classified). I doubt Obama knew she had classified information on the server unless he dug through all of her actual emails.

outand_up 10y ago
There were 110 emails in 52 email chains that were classified at the time they were sent or received, and at least 3 (that the FBI director remembers) that contained visible classified header markings. This is national security we're talking about, it's really important to be accurate when making statements. In the pursuit of truth and fact, please refer to this video of FBI Director James Comey at a House Oversight Committee meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1Mc6-RDyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1Mc6-RDyQ
davidf18 10y ago
I don't think Colin Powell gave her that advice. The reason is that he and others know that all government business, whether classified or not, must be on government servers because by law, there must be a record of all government emails. Again, by law, this information can be disclosed through Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests, something which Clinton wanted to avoid.
- daughart 10y ago
  A quick google would reveal that he did in fact give this advice: "He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department," a Powell spokeswoman said. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-hillary-clinton-emails-227861#ixzz4OKFJlh00 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-hillary-c...

MaxLeiter 10y ago

75% of people probably don't understand domain names/servers; in his position, I would have assumed it was a secure, govt server. Plus, the past secretary of state did the same, and the Bush administration deleted millions of emails (not just a few thousand)

davidf18 10y ago
> 75% of people probably don't understand domain names/servers; in his position, I would have assumed it was a secure, govt server I think we should credit a Harvard Law grad and undergrad Columbia Univ. that has security staff and technical staff briefing him that he would know that government domains end in ".gov" and not ".com" I believe that he would know that the SOS email address domain is "state.gov" Regarding past SOS, ..... Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who was appointed after AG Gonzales was dismissed wrote that criminal charges should be filed [1]. [1] Clinton’s Emails: A Criminal Charge Is Justified Hillary’s explanations look increasingly contrived as evidence of malfeasance mounts day by day. http://www.wsj.com/articles/clintons-emails-a-criminal-charge-is-justified-1453419158 http://www.wsj.com/articles/clintons-emails-a-criminal-charg... EDIT: From the article: "When asked whether she had her server “wiped,” she assumed an air of grandmotherly befuddlement: “What, like with a cloth or something?” she said. “I don’t know how it works digitally at all.” The current news, reported in the Journal and elsewhere, is that her server contained information at the highest level of classification, known as SAP, or Special Access Program. This is a level so high that even the inspector general for the intelligence community who reported the discovery did not initially have clearance to examine it."
- tdb7893 10y ago
  How often do you read the domains of the people that send you emails? Also how is it surprising that Hillary, who is almost 70, can't use computers. I'm sick of these scandals on both sides with one side assuming Clinton is a Bond villian and the other side perfectly ready the think Trump is literally Hitler
  - davidf18 10y ago